The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-05
GENERAL NEWS.

RIVER still rising.
CLOUDY and cold.
BUSINESS pretty fair.
WEATHER very dissgreeable.
ONLY one boat leaving this EVENING"
THE Mississippi is falling at st.
Louis,
THE Wyoming is over due from New
Orleans.
The Rene Macready is due from st.
Francis river.
THE Chesapeake left for Tiptonvills
with a fair trip.
THE ferry boat Alice may go through
to Marion today.
The Tennessee river is rising rap
idly at Chattanooga.
ARKANSAS RIVER Is falling at Little
Rock aud Fort Smith.
The Port Eads, with barges, passed
10 New Orleans yesterday.
TIE Chas. P. Ohouteau is on her
way from New Orleans to this port.
The Guiding Star will probably pass
here today on her way to Cincinnati.
THE Wyoming was expected to pass
up last night on her way to st. Louis.
THE Kate Adams is the regular mail
packet leaving Monday evening for
Arkansas City.
DURING the twenty.iour hours, end
ing at neon yesterday, the river here
rose one foot and two inches.
The rivers remain frozen at Daven-
port, Dubuque, Keokuk, La Crosse,
Leavenworth, Omaha and st. Paul.
THE Thomas Sherlock LEFT Cairo at
noon yesterday, and she should pass
here today on her way to New Or
leans.
CAPr. I. B. SIM, who recently pur-
chased the steamer ID. Il. Powell, has
gone to Cairo to look after the inter
ests Of his beat.
THR Coahoma, from Oaceola, brought
40 bales OF cotton, "a bags Of seed cot
ION aud 80 sacks Of cotton seed. She
returned TO the upper coast last night
with fair trip.
The Granite State left last night for
Cincinnati with 800 bales OF cotton, 80
barrels of oil, so barrels of molassee, so
bales OF rags, lot Of sundries and q
fsir list OF people.
THE City of Cairo, Capt. Shep.
LiRhtner, leaves here this evening for
Vicksburg and all way landings, TAX
ing freight for all points on the Yazoo
aud Tallshatchie rivers. Mr.. j. q.
Elton is her clerk.
THE Ed Foster, Capt. Elisha Evans,
left Yesterday for Bsulah Lake, 90
miles down the river, TO bring out
cotton Sc I'd, from whence IL will prob
ably be shipped 10 Memphis.
CAPT, PRATT, OF the towboat Glen.
vile, finding that his boat was not
large enough to do the business In the
Memphis and Old river trade, yester-
day chartered the stern wheel steamer
Dick Clyde, and sent her to Old river.
The James Lee arrived from Friars
Point with 267 bales Of cotton, 7S bags
OF seed cotton, 1905 sacks OF cotton
seed, IS head OF stock, SO bundles Of
sacks aud 10 packages OF sundries. She
went back at dark with very good
trip.
IHE II. Nj, 0rhnam hrlVeu IIoh
Plum Point, and is busily engaged In
pleclng barges below the foot of Beale
street, preparatory to sinking a mat
tress 460 by 200 at that point. The
bank mas caved there recently, and
this necessitsted the sinking OF this
mattress.
The river at Cincinnati continues to
rise rapidly, and at noon yesterday
the gauge registered "a 8, q rise OF 4
feet 5 inches during the preceding "a
hours. At Pittsburg yesterday the
river rose 10 feet. 1t will bs some time
before all this water reaches here, but
when 1t does there will be trouble In
the lowlsnds. Just now there Ia no
danger.
The bank at Hope6eld has been
caving rapidly, and within the past
two days more than 200 feet OF the
hank there has fallen into the river.
The incline of the Memphis and Little
Rock railroad caved into the river
Wednesday night, and the trains on
that road are now transferred at the
Kansas City incline at West Mem
phiB.